United States · What does Luminate Capital invest in?
Luminate Capital says it invests in Enterprise Software and SaaS.
What they do
Our mission is to be a private equity firm that provides tactical, company-specific execution as your side-by-side partner.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- GrowthBuyout
- Sectors
- Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
No rounds observed yet. That is a limit of the sources we read, not a finding about the firm. If it has invested, a round will put it here. Know a round it was in? Tell us.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
HMHollie Moore HaynesExecutive Officer, Director, PromoteriFiling they signed
JMJames Marvin HaynesTrustee of the Hollie Moore Haynes Gift TrustiForm ADV
KMKatherine Moore DowlingExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KNKatherine Nichols ScottChief Compliance Officer/Chief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 14 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$3.8Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Luminate Capital Management, Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 269873
Funds on its Form ADV
8 private funds, $2.0B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Luminate Capital Partners III, L.P.Private equity97 investors$449M
- Luminate Academy Holdings, L.P.Private equity16 investors$382M
- Luminate Capital Partners II, L.P.Private equity85 investors$342M
- Luminate Island Holdings, L.P.Private equity11 investors$211M
- Luminate Capital Partners III-A, L.P.Private equity49 investors$206M
- Luminate Capital Partners II-A, L.P.Private equity18 investors$182M
- Luminate Capital Partners AIV, L.P.Private equity62 investors$132M
- Luminate Capital Partners, L.P.Private equity62 investors$96M
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in Luminate Capital's funds
- Committed
- $650M
- Funds
- 3
- Vintages
- 2021 to 2025
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
Washington State Investment Board2 funds$350MFund Vintage Committed Luminate Capital Partners IV 2025 $200M Luminate Capital Partners III 2021 $150M 
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund2 funds$300MFund Vintage Committed Luminate Capital Partners IV 2024 $150M Luminate Capital Partners Fund III 2021 $150M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
6 of 22 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.